Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I ought to just come in there because , erm , I do n't know to what degree it 's appropriate to discuss erm , the er , some of the background details to the letting of contracts in public , but perhaps it 's alright . |
| 2 | Oh I see I must of just been putting it down at that time |
| 3 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 4 | I used to just like comfortable clothes but now I 'm more into dressing up . ’ |
| 5 | I used to just like comfortable clothes but now I 'm more into dressing up , ’ she reveals . |
| 6 | I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I used to just stay in my house all night and lock myself in my room and think . |
| 8 | I used to just let him get away with it . |
| 9 | I used to just sit and cry . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to just swot up on learning the key words and churning them out computer fashion , but now I am more interested in what they mean . |
| 11 | So I 've got all ready , for me AIDS cos I used to just think oh I do n't really , I could just go and get some leaflets on ban on |
| 12 | Of course he should , you ought to just ask him for say a hundred , you know to buy a couple of packs of nappies and some cream and changing mat , a changing bag , you 'll want all that wo n't you ? |
| 13 | It 's like a a rou round disc that screwed on and as that wore at the back you used to just slacken the screw slightly and turn it round until a little bit more of it wore and then you turn it round again until the whole thing was worn down . |
| 14 | you used to just , it was just knit |
| 15 | to do it , but Sister would n't of even have that , she would of just erm , chucked them , but I know Kay put a lot of work into , she 's not coming |
| 16 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 17 | We should of just got in the car and left there and then , parked |
| 18 | Yeah we used to just put an old sack on and more or less bareback . |
| 19 | We used to just |
| 20 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 21 | I remember we used to just fancy |
| 22 | They could of just shouted through ! |
| 23 | And then my friends ' boyfriends , on an evening out , they used to just have a go at him , and I 'd feel really embarrassed . |
| 24 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 25 | And er that 's and then of course and then of course in the other place where they used to do it , they used to just pull these ladders out and these there nets was all folded up and everything ready to do away abroad or anywhere you know . |
| 26 | Oh well just talking and when anybody came here they used to just talk about about old stories and things like that . |
| 27 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 28 | She said , oh she said he does n't want them to come again , well I said he should of just shouted I said do n't bang them down stairs , you know ? |
| 29 | Well because the postman had come to empty the letter box , right , so there was no point in mummy putting her letter in cos he 'd of just taken it out again |
| 30 | And is it , I mean it used to just be men who would do these things and |